‘Stivale NM boot/ Stoviglie NSFPL dishes’
‘Slip on, tesoro, le tue stoviglie…’

So my over-eagerness mistook ‘stivali’/

Boots, here exotic, for crockery –
Your look more of surprise than mockery –

‘What will this English bungler dream up next?’

You may have thought but never said,
Too gracious by half. Error since corrected

In act as well as word, I wonder at

How malapropism ever got so fortunate:
Washing up has a whole new interest –

Sheathed ankles, knees, thighs get given

A not-so-objective correlative –
Dream kitchen discreetly equipped with

Suddish shifts of memory, latent delight

In each flashing dish, glinting plate.